Conclusion: Ginkgo biloba extracts have shown the greatest cognitive and functional benefits, though their clinical significance remains uncertain, and certainty of evidence is overall low. Future trials should focus on a single VCI subtype, prioritize interventions with a strong mechanistic rationale, standardize diagnostic criteria, ensure adequate power for chosen outcomes, test against placebo, and implement FAIR data sharing to accelerate therapeutic discovery.
PubMed 41198594 ↗Cerebrolysin
People mainly take Cerebrolysin for memory, focus, mood. Based on 101 first-hand reports and 30 meta-analyses & systematic reviews in the medical literature. Ranked #78 of 1,974 overall.
Of reports that state an outcome, 76% are positive.
What Cerebrolysin does, according to users
Of the people who reported each effect, the share who said it got better.
1 more with fewer than 3 reports
What the research says
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses from PubMed, with their published conclusions.
3+ meta-analyses or systematic reviews and 10+ randomized controlled trials in humans. The grade measures how much human research exists — read the conclusions below for what it found.
Conclusion: The findings of this Cochrane Review do not demonstrate clinical benefits of cerebrolysin for treating acute ischaemic stroke. We found moderate-quality evidence suggesting that serious adverse events may be more common with cerebrolysin use in acute ischaemic stroke.
PubMed 27918088 ↗Conclusion: The findings of this Cochrane Review do not demonstrate clinical benefits of cerebrolysin for treating acute ischaemic stroke. We found moderate-quality evidence of an increase in non-fatal SAEs with cerebrolysin use but not in total SAEs.
PubMed 28430363 ↗Conclusion: Cerebrolysin may have positive effects on cognitive function and global function in elderly patients with vascular dementia of mild to moderate severity, but there is still insufficient evidence to recommend Cerebrolysin as a routine treatment for vascular dementia due to the limited number of included trials, wide variety of treatment durations and short-term follow-up in most of the trials.
PubMed 23440834 ↗Dosage people report
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Reported side effects
How often each side effect came up across all reports.
What users say
Verbatim quotes, shortened only — each links to the original discussion.
“Cerebrolyseine”
“After ~15 mins of administration of any of these, I'm starting to feel tingling all over the body, weakness, noticeable drop in mood and cognition.”
“Semaks, Selank, and Cerebrolysin are things to consider since you probably need to regrow some of the neurological damage”
“The one near the top of my todo list that my limited research tells me is NOT a dud is Cerebrolysin.”
“I am thinking of getting cerebrolysin to compare it to. However, I am not too keen on intramuscular”
Other options for memory
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